Acknowledgments

Janet Walsh, deputy director of the Women's Rights Division, wrote this
report, which is based on research conducted by Janet Walsh and LaShawn R.
Jefferson, executive director of the Women's Rights Division.Joanne Csete, director of the HIV/AIDS and
Human Rights Program; Peter Takirambudde, executive director of the Africa Division;
LaShawn R. Jefferson; and Joseph Saunders, deputy director of the Program
Office, edited the report.James Ross,
senior legal advisor, provided legal review.Natalie Rainer, Katherine Bowman, Patrick Minges, and Fitzroy Hepkins
provided production assistance.

Many individuals and organizations helped to make this research
possible.Our thanks for generous help
in the field goes to many nongovernmental organizations and U.N. bodies,
including the Centre for the Rehabilitation and Education of Abused Women,
Education Centre for Women in Democracy, Coalition on Violence against Women,
GROOTS Kenya, Society of Women against AIDS in Kenya, Women's Rights Awareness
Programme, Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, Muslim Sisters Network,
Springs Ministry, St. Rita Women's Group, Kenya Land Alliance, International
Technology Development Group, Kenya Human Rights Commission, Collaborative
Centre for Gender and Development, Green Belt Movement, International
Federation of Women Lawyers-Kenya Chapter, Urban Harvest, Mazingira Institute,
FEMNET, International Commission of JuristsKenya, Kituo Cha Sheria, Pamoja
Trust, Shelter Forum, UN-Habitat, UNIFEM, and UNAIDS.We also wish to thank a number of individual
lawyers, academics, and experts in Kenya, including Patricia Kameri-Mbote,
Winnie Mitullah, Martha Koome, Martha Karua, Jane Michuki, Akinyi Nzioki, Nicky
Nzioki, Betty Murungi, Pauline Nyamweya, Nazlin Rajput, A.D.O. Rachier, and
Kamau Mu'buu.

For logistical assistance in the field, we thank especially Catherine
Muthoni.We also wish to thank Jessica
Thorpe, Adela Mall, and Ann Strimov for research and logistical
assistance.

Most of all, Human Rights Watch wishes to thank all the individuals in
Kenya who agreed to be interviewed for this report.Their candor made this report possible.

We also acknowledge with gratitude
the financial support of Kathleen Peratis and Richard Frank, the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Moriah Fund, the
Oak Foundation, the Streisand Foundation, the Dobkin Family Foundation, and the
members of the Advisory Committee of the Women's Rights Division.

Human
Rights Watch

Women's
Rights Division

Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of
people around the world.

We stand with victims and activists to bring offenders to justice,
to prevent discrimination, to uphold

political
freedom and to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime.

Its Women's Rights Division was
established in 1990 to document and report on state-sponsored and
state-tolerated violence and discrimination against women in various regions of
the world.LaShawn R. Jefferson is the
executive director, Janet Walsh is the deputy director, Nisha Varia is the Asia
researcher, Lisa Karanja is the Orville Schell Fellow, and Natalie Rainer and
Katherine Bowman are the associates.